Meteorite impacts are much more common than we think, with an estimated small handful of them happening every year. However, it’s much more rare when one the size of the meteorite that crashed down in Russia this morning hits, and even more rare when it gets captured on film by multiple cameras.
A new space company called Deep Space Industries will be making a live broadcast later today to announce its plans to begin asteroid prospecting operations by 2015. They will be launching a fleet of mini spacecraft into solar orbit to identify potential targets near to the earth that would be suitable to mine.
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